William_Gossett_(MP)

William Gosset (British Army officer, born 1782)

William Gosset (British Army officer, born 1782)

British Member of Parliament (1782–1848)

Major-General Sir William Gosset KCH (18 January 1782 – 27 March 1848) was a British Army officer and public servant.

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Biography

Commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1798, Gosset was secretary to William à Court's mission to the Barbary States in 1813, Member of Parliament for Truro from 1820 to 1826, secretary to Lord Anglesey as Master-General of the Ordnance from 1827 to 1828, private secretary to Anglesey as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1828 to 1829, Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1831 to 1835 and Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons from 1835 until his death.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    David R. Fisher, GOSSET, William (1782-1848), of Round Ward, nr. Truro, Cornw. and 64 Harley Street, Mdx. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832 (2009).


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